Sepsis caused by Elizabethkingia miricola successfully treated with tigecycline and levofloxacin.

Abstract:

:Elizabethkingia miricola is a Gram-negative rod that was initially isolated from condensation water of the space station Mir. This is the 1st reported case of human disease caused by this organism.

authors

Green O,Murray P,Gea-Banacloche JC

doi

10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.07.015

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-12-01 00:00:00

pages

430-2

issue

4

eissn

0732-8893

issn

1879-0070

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S0732-8893(08)00352-0

journal_volume

62

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